MADRID Spain posted a new daily record of 44,357 coronavirus infections.
The Health Ministry reported 404 deaths on Thursday, increasing the confirmed total to 55,041 deaths and 2.5 million cases.
The country’s 14-day average case rate rose to 796 per 100,000 inhabitants, up from 736 on Wednesday.
Despite the numbers, government coronavirus expert Fernando Simón says the country could be reaching a plateau. But he says a decrease in new “hospitalizations and admissions to ICUs won’t be noticed for at least another week.”
ICU bed occupancy by COVID-19 patients is at 36% nationally. Two regions, La Rioja and Valencia, have occupancy rates above 50%.
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Coronavirus vaccination gets under way in Argentina 3 minutes read
Buenos Aires, Dec 29 (efe-epa).- Health care workers were at the head of the line Tuesday as Argentina began Covid-19 vaccination using Sputnik V, developed by Russia’s Gamaleya Research Institute, amid concerns about a second wave of infections in the South American country that has already lost nearly 43,000 lives to Covid-19.
“It is a beautiful day for Argentines, the start of a new stage in which we must continue keeping everyone together, as we are now beginning this vaccination nationwide,” Health Minister Gines Gonzalez Garcia said from Hospital Posadas in Buenos Aires, where he and Health Access Secretary Carla Vizzotti witnessed the first inoculations a little before 9:00 am.